Southern Gothic

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Does anyone have any recommendations for this genre? Especially if they're more recent publications! I recently read Soil and loved it, looking for more in that vein. Thanks

Try perhaps Bayou Born and Bayou Bound by Linda Joyce, otherwise some more books on this link: www.tripfiction.com/find-a-book/?location=Mississippi&btitle=&bauthor=&genre=Genre... Hope you find something you like!

Is We Have Always Lived in the Castle considered Southern Gothic? Really pleased to be educated on this subject?

Just auto corrected to Southend Gothic, hmm an interesting new genre...

My references for this are all more classic - Faulkner, Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is more recent (not recent recent!), that might fit.

Thank you for the recommendations! Going on a book shop scout this afternoon

Also very interested in the potential in Southend gothic

In crime fiction-Daniel Woodrell, the Hap and Leonard series by joe Lansdale, some James Sallis (though he's not really southern) Angelheart I really liked (was a film with Mickey rourke)

God Of Small Things, whilst Indian, has been said to be influenced by the Southern Gothic.

You could read plays like Streetcar.

Donna Tartt's Little Friend was v southern Gothic iirc.

Salvage The Bones by Jesmyn Ward : I hated it as I found it too too grim. But others have raved about her.

Might be out of print but Richard Marius' An affair of Honour, After the War and The Coming of Rain
They are a very loose trilogy spanning many years but are standalone novels.

Donna Tartt's Little Friend was v southern Gothic iirc

It was. But a real letdown of a book.

George R R Martin's Fever Dream. Southern gothic vampires on Mississippi steam boats.

Donna Tartt's Little Friend was v southern Gothic iirc

It was. But a real letdown of a book

It was indeed.

It's set in Canada so can't be described as Southern Gothic (although the vibe is certainly dark and gothic) but geographic location aside Fall On Your Knees by Ann-Marie McDonald might fit the bill.

Oh gosh I wept buckets at that book and even more at The Way the Crow Flies

I'm still so emotionally wrung out from Fall On Your Knees that I haven't tried any of her other books yet

Oh yes forgot about Fevre Dream, read it when it first came out (gulp) about 30 years ago. If you're going horror, you can't beat Interview with a Vampire.